Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively’s box office battle
The husband-and-wife duo took the top two spots with ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ and ‘It Ends With Us.’
Hello! Welcome to The Box Office Report for the weekend of Aug. 9-11, 2024.
1. DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE
Weekend gross: $54.2M
Total domestic gross: $494.3M
Last weekend: 1st
Percent drop: 44
Another weekend, another No. 1 finish for Deadpool & Wolverine. As the latest MCU film crashed through the $1 billion worldwide mark, Deadpool & Wolverine did have some competition from It Ends With Us, though.
Yes, the husband-and-wife duo of Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively battled it out for box office supremacy this weekend, with Reynolds coming out on top by an estimated $4.2 million.
We’ll get to It Ends With Us in a second, but first let’s check in on the accolades that Deadpool & Wolverine have added to its haul since last weekend. The film was already the highest grossing rated-R film in domestic history, and now it’s less than $35 million away from passing Joker to claim that title on a worldwide scale, with Deadpool & Wolverine sitting at $1.03 billion to Joker’s $1.064 billion.
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